East Ridge police is investigating the Saturday night robbery of a Ringgold Road pharmacy.

According to a press release, officers were dispatched to the Walgreens at 5301 Ringgold Road just before midnight on a “robbery in progress” call. When officers arrived they spoke with an employee who said the suspect had left the scene, but the pharmacy had been robbed.

Police quickly searched the surrounding area for a suspect but the search was fruitless.

Investigators spoke to an employee in the pharmacy section of the store who told them that a black male walked up to the counter and began asking questions in regard to his pregnant girlfriend. The woman told officers that the suspect then flashed a handgun and pointed it at her after he jumped the counter. The robber demanded drugs, the woman told police, and ordered the employee onto the floor before leaving the store.

Another pharmacy employee told police that the suspect said he would shoot everyone in the store if anyone moved.

The suspect is described as a thin, black male, about six feet in height and approximately 20-years old. He was wearing a black T-shirt, black pants and carrying a black bag. The weapon the man brandished was described as a silver or “bluish” handgun.

The press release states that the suspect made off with Hydromorphone, Oxycontin, Oxycodone and a type of Morphine. 

No one was reported injured during the incident.